Things like the metaverse are much more ongoing projects tbh. They shouldn't be viewed as completed aspects but rather projects that are in development and will be built upon with different aspects of the technology being built into and integrated into them. They are much more like test ground of how to integrate new technology as well as eventually higher aspects of graphics into a larger aspect through different aspects such as automation, different forms of social interaction and other conseus mechanism. While clearly the graphics in them are often lackluster this is why it should be viewed as more complicated to judge them because in some sense it isn't a project the creator are just building but we are involved in building too